Roller Skates (puffin Newbery Library)

from nittnut

I read this as a child and loved it. I enjoyed reading it again. Set in NY in the 1890's. A young girl is left with one of her school teachers while her parents travel to Italy for her mother's health. She is a feisty, lovable character and enjoys the unusual freedom of life without servants and ...

from SHARONTHEIL

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer is a fun read set in 1890's New York City. It is a comedy of manners where the heroine, Lucinda, is supposed to be lady-like but continuously shocks her snobby social set by roller skating her way to school and befriending cab drivers and apple cart men. Her family co...

from juliette07

In 1937 this delightful book won the Newbery Medal. When the author Ruth Sawyer received the medal she let her audience into the secret that she herself had known the ten year old Lucinda intimately - 'Lucinda and I had the same mother'. The acceptance speech is printed at the start of my copy an...

from SHARONTHEIL

Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer is a fun read set in 1890's New York City. It is a comedy of manners where the heroine, Lucinda, is supposed to be lady-like but continuously shocks her snobby social set by roller skating her way to school and befriending cab drivers and apple cart men. Her family co...

from MaowangVater

Ten-year-old Lucinda has an exciting year roller-skating about Manhattan while her parents are away in Italy, She quickly makes friends with Irish cab-drivers and policemen, Italian fruit-vendors, actors, a night reporter, a starving violinist and his family, a Turkish lady and many others outsid...